Quotes About Humility

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.